The horror of senseless attacks Yesterday, the 13th of June 2023, three wholly innocent people were killed, murdered, in Nottingham. While the police and the authorities are still trying to work out exactly what happened and why, it is clear that the victims were in the wrong place at the Read more…
5 Ways to Improve Your Travel Security Last week I sat down with an old friend, now the COO of a technology company. They had recently tried to open a new market in the Middle East and had in his words “bombed it”. Their team had misjudged the meetings culturally, Read more…
Developing Skills to help you Succeed We’re changing the way we do things this year. Every Tuesday we will be publishing a blog post to help you develop your security approach as an individual and someone responsible for others. Some posts will be skills to practice others will be about Read more…
Building awareness in primary age children During a recent presentation to a group of school governors I was asked, “at what age can you start sharing street safe awareness skills with children?” The governor represented a primary school and was thinking about their 5-year-olds and above. Street Safe Thinking is Read more…
How to keep control of your emotions as the weather boils As the UK issues its first ever red warning for extreme heat, experts have regularly warned of the physical risk to ourselves, our animals and, our properties, all brought about by this unusual burst of heat. But, the affects Read more…
It’s nearly the New Year and driven by positive intent, many of us will be thinking about where we are in our lives and what we want to achieve in the next year. Will we change jobs, study for that extra qualification, finally do that marathon, learn Spanish or lose Read more…
Eight die in concert crowd On 5th November 2021 the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston Texas suddenly surged forward. Within minutes, eleven people suffered cardiac arrests through the crushing of the bodies. Although emergency services were able to recover them from the crowd, eight subsequently died of Read more…
Since the Coronavirus Lockdown started, crime has changed, and not always in the way we may have expected. Some news would have it that crime has dropped, and that is a common perception, but this is only partially correct. You are now vulnerable in different ways and you need to Read more…
The government advice for the coronavirus outbreak is very clear. If you are not needed at work, or if you’re able to work from home, then you should stay at home. For those of us in that category, that means a period of at least three weeks, so far, with Read more…
There is a home burglarly every 108 seconds somewhere in the UK. The Average cost of a residential burglary is £3,030 according to the ONS. That doesn’t include the emotional cost. It is estimated that somebody is at home during 58% of burglaries. Keeping your home secure is vital to Read more…
or, Why do so many politicians fail to understand where security capacity comes from? Across the United Kingdom there is a common belief that violent crime is a serious growing national problem. While statistics do not always support this belief, perceptions do guide action from those in power. The current Read more…
Earlier today the UK government lifted its travel advice against visiting Sharm el Sheikh including the airport and the areas of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq. That’s good news both for tourists and the tourist industry in that area, but it does raise the general Read more…
Good question. The world has never before presented so much opportunity to so many of us. We can literally reach across the world to start new businesses, ask for support and build relationships. Borders and distances which once would have stopped us seem relatively inconsequential, by-passable with a little bit Read more…